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Title: Authors Purpose


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Authors Purpose
  • 3rd Grade, Language Arts
  • Mary Ruebusch
  • McCurdy School

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Teachers Page
Objective This activity is intended to let
students see what an author may be thinking
while writing a poem.
Activity Students will read the poem and the
authors notes. They will answer in journals.
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Teacher Page
Procedure 1. Read the poem and author notes. 2.
Answer questions in a journal. 3. Discuss answers.
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Sun Tag
  • The Wind and the Sun
  • Played tag all day.
  • The Sun was it,
  • The Wind ran away.

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Authors Notes
  • When I was writing this poem I was thinking
    about the weather principle of high and low
    pressure. I wanted to describe how the heat from
    the Sun causes the wind to blow.
  • continued

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When I write poetry I like to personify my
subject. Including at least one rhyme is also
important to me.
Personify to make an object like a person
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Think about the poem.Why do you think the author
called this poem Sun Tag?
Write in your journal.
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Write in your journal.Why did the poet write
this poem?
What weather principles was the author
thinking about?
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What is personified in this poem?How is it
personified?
Click twice for clues.
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Think of another example of personification.
Write in your journal.
Click for a suggestion.
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